The Shark Tank

First of all, let me get this one thing out of the way.   The Wire is the best television show ever made.  Not just good, the best.  Some of you think that M.A.S.H. or The Sopranos or some other show is the best, but you are wrong.  If you haven’t watched The Wire or you [...]

I’ve been a bit up and down since I last posted an update. Mostly, I’ve been focused on a variety of personal issues getting ready for the house update. I’ve played a bit more on Stars and some on Cake, just to check it out. ITHers find Cake uber-soft and it seems [...]

But I’m sure it does:

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Terry Borer is the guest expert on ITH today and he has posted in an interesting thread about turn raises and what they represent. His book suggested that turn raises are top pair or better a very high percentage of the time. The book suggests it may be as high as 94% of [...]

I have played almost no poker since the last update. I woke up at 2AM this morning and have been playing for half an hour or so. Action is slow, so I’m playing 10/20 on Stars at the moment. I got in a funny situation on the table there. There was [...]

Today was primarily dedicated to making remodeling decisions on the house and building a spreadsheet to track just how screwed I am.  The first item we discussed was the appliances for the kitchen and I think we’re $4,000 over budget on that line item.  That does not bode well for the project.  Its kinda frustrating [...]

I played a lot better yesterday.  I was recognizing the flow of the game better and I’m pretty sure I corrected most of the leaks I was working on.  Unfortunately, this didn’t translate into winning money, as I dropped $500 or so.  Nonetheless, I’m pretty confident that I was playing better.
I actually donked around in [...]

There is a flaw common to many of us as poker players.  We tend to think we are better than we are.  When we win, we accept it as our natural due and when we lose we tend to blame bad luck.  Certainly, luck is involved especially when you look at day by day results [...]

In the pre-UIGEA days, I used to be able to find dozens of full tables of 15/30 and 30/60 at any hour of the day or night at good old PartyPoker.  Often, these tables were populated with some amazingly poor players.  You saw new faces every single day.  Part of this is explained by the [...]

It occurred to me that I really haven’t been spending enough time reviewing my sessions and analyzing my opponents lately.  I got to devote a little bit of time to that project late last night when I couldn’t sleep and I feel like it helped me make better decisions already today.  I think I found [...]